🍄 Family

Calostomataceae

3 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Boletales › Calostomataceae

Calostoma cinnabarinum is an ectomycorrhizal gasteroid fungus with distinctive bright red gelatinous fruit bodies.

Calostoma fuscum is a Sclerodermataceae gasteroid fungus found in Australian Eucalyptus forests, first described in 1839 and reclassified in 1888.

Calostoma rodwayi is a truffle-like fungus found in New Zealand, southeastern Australia, and Tasmania that grows in Nothofagus forests.

Related Families

Boletaceae 137 species Suillaceae 30 species Gomphidiaceae 9 species Sclerodermataceae 8 species Diplocystidiaceae 4 species Paxillaceae 4 species Gyroporaceae 3 species Hygrophoropsidaceae 3 species

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